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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by AndyNemmity on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @01:47PM (#16914801)
It also entirely depends on your career path. Mine didn't involve programming outside of shell for most of it, and involved tons of deep expertise on a variety of topics.

I was shocked doing an interview in my last round and got so many test questions. I bombed so hard because it wasn't what I was doing.

The real key to me is, we treat all of these jobs as more or less the same, when in reality they are all vastly different. There is no singular senior engineer skill set, but a variety.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by mooreds on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:07PM (#16916589)
"There is no singular senior engineer skill set, but a variety." Amen!

I wrote a whole blog post on that: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2812

I just wish companies would be more upfront about what they really needed, as opposed to the wishlist.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by fuzzygroup on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:21PM (#16915166)
"There is no singular senior engineer skill set, but a variety." That is extremely well said. Thank you.
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